I look forward to reading Mary Roach’s humorous Reader Digest column in every issue. The column reflects on things she runs into in life that many of us can relate. In the June 2007, she shares her experience in calling tech support regarding the Windows setup CD. Her computer crashed and it needed the setup … Read more
You may have seen these blogs. Their tagline says, “Just another WordPress Blog…”, their unoriginal content comes from everywhere else, and it looks lonely as no author appears identified in the blog. Some of these blogs have RSS, XML, and robots doing much of the work. These blogs often don’t have ads, so why bother? … Read more
I received an .odt file for posting on an organization’s Web site. Open Office‘s word processor uses this file format. I didn’t want to download and install Open Office even though it cost nothing. And going back to the sender wasn’t a good idea because she would either not know how to convert it or … Read more
Priscilla Palmer’s Personal Development List contains a long list of blogs worth reading that touch on personal development. The extensive list already contains the blogs I enjoy (Adversity University, Today Is That Day, and Lifehack). Here are a couple more to add: Jenna Glatzer, Christina Katz, and Dawn Goldberg. They are all talented writers who … Read more
Taking cue from The One Minute Manager, Zapp!, Fish! and Who Moved My Cheese?, The Hamster Revolution uses a parable to show how to better manage and organize e-mail and information. The hamster represents people endlessly running on the wheel of e-mail. Right away, I start using concepts from the 90-minute book. Considering I’m an … Read more
Every new release of an application adds more features, but not always for the better. Get ten tips for getting feature frenzy under control. In writing an article about social network sites, I looked at over two dozen sites like MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Sermo, TravBuddy, MyCreativeCommunity. Wikipedia provides a list of many social networking … Read more
It doesn’t matter how long the Internet has been around anymore… the argument of what makes a good link continues. Often when I write a blog post and want to reference another blog, site, resource… sometimes, I struggle to figure out what text to use as the link and what it should say. Plus, I … Read more
Smashing Magazine provided a wealth of expert tips, advice and suggestions in its popular and valuable 35 designers x 5 questions article. To celebrate its one year anniversary, the magazine found more experts and asked new questions. The result is 50 designers x 6 questions, which contains over 170 new tips answering the following six … Read more
Samantha Krieger of Just Say Yes asked if editors prefer to receive press releases by e-mail or by mail. The following is my response: It depends on the editor. My recommendation is to create a column in your editor contact list for “Preference” or something like a “Notes” column. Then go to their Web sites … Read more
Writer Mama provided a great discussion topic in asking readers if they are rule breakers or rule followers in terms of working as writers. Plus, my family ran into an issue where someone who may have broken rules that affected an entire team. Breaking a rule can be a minor thing that only affects the … Read more